This is a black and white photo of the festival committee delegation arriving at the Savoy in 1974, during the mayoralty of Pearse Wyse. The photo is taken from the top of the steps in the marble foyer of the Savoy and looks down at the crowd milling…
This is a black and white photo from 1974 during the mayoralty of Pearse Wyse. It shows the Lord Mayor seated with festival committee colleagues as they listen to a speaker at the microphone. The photo identifies the small group as Brother Jerome,…
This is a black and white photo of an award ceremony at the Cork City Hall and shows the all-male guests and dignitaries seated across the expanse of the stage. Small tables at the front of the stage display four glass whiskey decanters and the…
This is a black and white photo of the singer Helen Shapiro in conversation with the actor Ferdy Mayne and festival director Dermot Breen. They are probably at the Harp Lager-sponsored festival club and, as with the convivial crowd around them, they…
This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen with the artist and journalist Frank Sanquest and the politician, and former Lord Mayor of Cork, Gus Healy. Gus Healy, seated on the far left, was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician…
This is a black and white photo of the festival director, Dermot Breen, in conversation with the artist and journalist Frank Sanquest.Breen, with a cigarette in hand, was a colleague of Sanquest for many years – they would have come across each other…
This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen standing in front of a large display board with an unidentified colleague. The two men chat as Breen rests his left hand on the display for the film The Adventures of Barry…
These black and white images of a press conference are taken upstairs at the Savoy Cinema, Cork, during the 1970s. The photographs, by the photographer Donal Sheehan, include the festival director Dermot Breen holding forth alongside the journalist…
This is a black and white photo of the Dublin-born film director and producer Norman Cohen shaking hands with the festival director Dermot Breen. A bearded Cohen, wearing a light-coloured utility jacket, is smiling as he chats with Breen. While there…
This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor David Kelly with festival director Dermot Breen, Jim O’Brien, and an unidentified companion. The small group are arriving into the marble lobby of the Imperial Hotel on the South Mall in Cork. Kelly,…